Word: worded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...driving force behind this whirlwind was the plain man in the White House. He issued no long pronouncements. He merely passed word down the line that speed was the order...
Everything seemed to be going fine. But that afternoon, President Truman dropped a bombshell. After his regular press conference, twelve French journalists remained to be presented. The President shook their hands. Asked if he had a word for them, he said he did. He told them he thought it was high time that the French press began to give America a square deal (see PRESS...
...Deal and the Depression -e.g., forgotten man, economic royalist, horse-and-buggy days, boondoggling-as are the more ephemeral third-termite and That Man, and the alphabet soup of government bureaus (NRA, TVA). But the bulk of heavy coinage has come from a slew of irresponsible, word-happy inventors, including such Menckenian heroes as Variety's late Jack Conway (who coined baloney, S.A., high-hat, pushover, payoff, bellylaugh, palooka and scram) and the inventor of slanguage itself, Walter Winchell...
Governor in the Harem. The crusade soon got under way again, after a courier brought word of U.S. warships in the harbor of nearby Bomba, a scant 40 miles from Derna...
...triumph was short-lived. Derna's natives flatly declined to rally to Hamet, and Yusuf's men bore down relentlessly from the hills. Just as the marines were preparing for a last-ditch stand, Eaton got word that his government had made peace with Yusuf, selling Hamet down the river...